When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice.

I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books.

The O.J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn't want to.

When I interview people accused of capital offenses, I never even ask if they did it. I would consider that unprofessional.

I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.

What I didn't know was that if I didn't stand with my back to the wall, Hollywood people would unscrew my ass and sell it down the river.

No one I know of has ever had this experience-where you had to sit and wait and wait for a DNA test to come back just so you can write the last page of the book.